Iolanta and Perséphone - A double bill consisting of two stage works that “represent an ideal of beauty, poetry and hope” forms this new production in Madrid from the Teatro Real. In both works the progression from darkness to light acts as an…

For the 2013 year-end celebration, we can hear two of the most popular Hungarian Dances by Brahms, as well as Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances, both primitive and elegant rhythms from the geographical center of Europe, so rich in musical tradition. Not quite…

On 12 September, Gianni Schicchi opened the LA Opera’s 2015/2016 season, which marks its 30th anniversary. The production by director Woody Allen first saw the light of day in LA in 2008, travelled to Teatro Real in Madrid and now returns home…

This program features a concert by Libera, a 32-member boy choir from South London. An 18-piece orchestra accompanies the performance that includes both sacred and popular music, from Be Still My Soul and Amazing Grace, to Morning Has Broken and…

When Igudesman and Joo perform with an orchestra, the musical nightmares take on epic proportions! Experience perennial favourites like Mozart Bond, Alla Molto Turca and Cleaning vs. Riverdancing amped up for a full-blown orchestra. But on top of…

Over the course of 19 days, the best youth orchestras in the world led by great conductors and flanked by virtuoso soloists guaranteed exciting and inspiring concert performances at the Young Euro Classical 2017. The festival is known to be the most…

The Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) is a youth orchestra composed of musicians from several Asian countries. It was founded by Yehudi Menuhin and Richard Pontzious in 1987. In 2017, the orchestra played for the first time at the Young Euro Classic…

German composer Richard Wagner was notoriously anti-Semitic, and his writings on Jews were later embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. But there is another, lesser-known side to this story. For years, many of Wagner‘s closest associates were Jews - young…

More than 40 years of the European Union Youth Orchestra: a European success story which the Young Euro Classic audience has followed closely since the festival’s founding. Time and again, the orchestra, which unites the best young musicians from all…